University Goce Delcev, Faculty of Philology

English Language Department Course: English Literature XX century

Week 1 Introduction to Modern Poetry

 Dulce et decorum est, Wilfred Owen; When you are old, W. B. Yeats; La figlia che piange, T. S. Eliot; In A Station of the Metro, Ezra Pound; Winter is icumen in, Ezra Pound; This is just to say, William Carlos Williams  

Further reading

• Draper, R. P. (1999). An introduction to twentieth-century poetry in English.
• Howarth, P. (2011). The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry. (n.p.): Cambridge University Press.

Week 2  War Poems and Other

 Strange Meeting, Wilfred Owen; Repression of War Experience, and Banishment, Siegfried Sassoon; The Soldier, Rupert Brooke; Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats

Further reading

• Kendall, T. (2006). Modern English war poetry. OUP Oxford.
• Yeats, W. B. (2013). Early Poems. United States: Dover Publications.

Week 3 Brokenness and Loss

The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot

Further reading

• Eliot, T. S. (1998). The Waste Land and Other Poems. United States: Penguin Books.
• Longley, E. (2013). Yeats and Modern Poetry. United States: Cambridge University Press.

Week 4 Anxiety and Indecision

 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot

Further reading

• Eliot, T. S. (2019). Let Us Go Then: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. United States: Harry N. Abrams.

Week 5 “Make it new”

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter; Canto I, Ezra Pound

Further reading

• Hughes, G. (1972). Imagism & the Imagists: A Study in Modern Poetry. Biblo & Tannen Publishers.
• Terrell, C. F. (1993). A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound. United Kingdom: University of California Press.

Week 6 Traditional and Modern

 Selected poems from Frost, William Carlos Williams, cummings

Further reading

• A Study Guide for E. E. Cummings's "old age sticks". (2016). United States: Gale, Cengage Learning.
• Monteiro, G. (2015). Robert Frost's Poetry of Rural Life. United States: McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers.

Week 7 Introduction to Modern Prose

A Room of One’s Own / Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Further reading

• Sim, L. (2016). Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience. (n.p.): Taylor & Francis.
• A Companion to Virginia Woolf. (2016). United Kingdom: Wiley.

Week 8 The Stream-of-consciousness way

 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

Further reading

• Jansing, S. (2009). Selected Narrative Techniques in James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'. Germany: GRIN Verlag.
• James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook. (2003). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Week 9 The Role of Memory

The Lost Decade, Scott Fitzgerald

Further reading

• The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald. (2002). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
• McGowan, P. (2013). Exile and the City F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Lost Decade”. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, 11(1), 54-79.

Week 10 The Effects of Society on Man

1984, George Orwell

Further reading

• George Orwell's 1984. (2009). United States: Infobase Holdings, Incorporated.
• Enteen, G. M. (1984). George Orwell And the Theory of Totalitarianism: A 1984 Retrospective. The Journal of General Education, 36(3), 206-215.

Week 11 Humanity’s place in the World

The Old Man and the Sea,  Ernest Hemingway

Further reading

• Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. (2007). India: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Limited.
• Han, Q. (2015). New discussion about “Cannot Be Defeated”—Read the old man and the sea from the perspective of ecocriticism. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3(12), 196.